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Angier Griffin,
Lovaine House,
Percy Terrace,
Alnwick,
Northumberland
NE66 1AF
Tel: 0797 1162623
Fax: 0797 0092936
e-mail:
philip@angier-griffin.com

In the News!

Shared Interest wins Queens Award

Shared Interest Society, the Newcastle based social finance co-operative which is a leading provider of finance for fair trade, has been awarded the Queen’s Award for  Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category. This award, announced in April, comes on top of recognition from ACCA for its social reporting and in the Journal North East Business Awards for corporate social responsibility. Philip Angier has been Moderator of the Shared Interest Board since 2004.

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AnyBodyCan leads Quality & Impact study at Norcare

An AnyBodyCan project team led by Philip Angier is conducting a quality and impact study with supported housing providers Norcare and Aquila Way  The demonstration pilot, funded by the Northern Rock Foundation, will study the use of the Outcomes Star*  both as a toll for support planning with service users and as a means of aggregating data about quality and impact as management information and quality improvement tool.

The results of the study will be disseminated in July 2008.

* More information about the Outcomes Star can be found at www.homelessoutcomes.org.uk

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Philip Angier becomes Trustee of  Solaraid

Philip Angier has been appointed a Trustee of renewable energy charity, Solaraid

Solaraid was established by solar energy champion, Jeremy Leggett, chief executive and founder of Solar Century. The charity already has programmes in Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, and is expected to grow rapidly in the coming years.

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AnyBodyCan to manage Young Advisors project in Newcastle

An AnyBodyCan has been appointed manager of the Newcastle Young Advisors project. Based in West Newcastle, the project will train and encourage 5 young advisors to promote youth participation and to represent the views of young people in local and central government policies and initiatives.  Philip Angier is AnyBodyCan’s lead director on this project.

More information about the Young Advisors Charity can be found at : www.youngadvisors.org.uk

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Events Diary

Until July 2008

Executive Coaching from Newcastle Business School

 

Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University has gained funding from the Urban Regeneration Fund to deliver Executive Coaching to senior leaders within third sector organisations across North East England.  The coaching programme consists of 2 x 2 hour one-to-one sessions including personal Insights Discovery diagnostics. The coaching sessions must be delivered by the end of July 2008. Places are limited.

 

For more details see brochure here.

 

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6th May 2008

GOOD DEALS 2008  

 

This is the first national social investment conference, sponsored by Social Enterprise Magazine and the Office of the Third Sector.

It takes place at LSO in Old Street, London

 

Full details available at www.good-dealsuk.com

 

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13th May 2008

NERIP – State of the Region 2008 Conference – Copthorne Hotel, Newcastle

 

NERIP is holding a conference to launch the State of the Region 2008 Report.  Registration is from 10.00 am, the seminar will start at 10.30 am, and finish at 3.00 pm.

 

If you wish to register your interest, please email info@nerip.com, including the words ‘State of the Region’ in the heading of your email.

 

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18th – 24th  May 2008

National Ethical Investment Week

  

The first National Ethical Investment Week will be launched by UK Social Investment Forum.

 

For details of all events visit www.neiw.org

 

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30th May 2008

1st Annual SROI Exchange & Launch of the SROI UK Network

 

MANCHESTER hosted by the European and UK SROI Networks

Please find attached further details and booking information for the SROI Exchange in May.

 

You can book online at  http://www.sroi-uk.org/bookingform.html

 

The SROI UK website is also now live - www.sroi-uk.org

 

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20th – 21st  June

Northern Pensions Conference – Northumbria University, Newcastle

 

For more details see brochure here

 

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25th – 27th June

Money for Change – 2008

 

Annual Conference of Community Development Finance Association

 

For further details visit www.cdfa.org.uk

 

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 Publications

Mapping Social Enterprise Activity in North East of England

Angier Griffin was commissioned by the North East Social Enterprise Partnership (NESEP) to map the development of social enterprise activity in the North East on England over the past four years. Philip Angier’s report, now published, offers encouragement to those who believe in the importance of the sector with evidence of growth both in the number and economic contribution of social enterprises in the North East.

 

Click here to download a copy of the report

 

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Conversations with a Social Entrepreneur

Philip Angier has collected and edited a series of his articles originally printed in Social Enterprise magazine. They encompass a broad range of issues faced by young and growing social enterprises from cash flow crises to marketing dilemmas, team-building to warnings against taking ourselves too seriously.

 

Intended to be read at leisure ‘with a cup of fair trade coffee or a glass of fair trade wine to hand’ – you can browse the articles on the web or download them as a .pdf file. 

 

Click here to download Conversations with a Social Entrepreneur

 

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DIY Guide to Social Return on Investment


In July 2007, the New Economics Foundation published its DIY Guide to Social Return on Investment (SROI). SROI is a method for measuring and reporting the social, environmental and economic outputs of an organisation and giving those outputs a financial value. SROI compares the value of benefits against the cost of achieving the benefits. The ten stage guide is available free from their website. However, you will have to register to access the publication.
 

For further information please follow this link.

 

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Proving and Improving – a quality and impact toolkit for social enterprises

The quality and impact toolkit for social enterprise was launched by New Economics Foundation and the Social Enterprise Partnership in July 2005. Angier Griffin and the Valuing the Difference project have been actively involved in the development of the toolkit, which has been developed as a result of the Social Enterprise Partnership’s EQUAL project.

The Toolkit may be viewed (and downloaded as a pdf) on www.proveandimprove.org

For further information e-mail: imPROVEit@neweconomics.org

 

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How much should we pay ourselves?

Philip Angier tackled the thorny issues of pay, rewards, wealth, consumption and sustainability in a talk to Durham Diocese’s Off the Radar study group on 2nd June.

Click here to download a copy of the talk.

 

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Seizing the Opportunities and Overcoming the Barriers for Refugees wanting to set up their own businesses in the North East.

 

Angier Griffin has recently completed and published this report. Funded by ONE NorthEast and compiled in partnership with the Regional Refugee Forum North East, the report list 19 recommendations for improving access to business support services for the new refugee communities now settled in the North East.

 

Click here to download a copy or contact Philip Angier (Cost £3.00 including p&p)

 

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Lesson Learned the Hard Way – a disarmingly honest look at how to grow up as a social business, published by the Furniture Resource Group, Liverpool with support from Esmee Fairbiarn Foundation. For copies contact: www.frcgroup.co.uk

 

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Social Enterprise in Anytown –  a new book arguing the importance of social enterprise in tackling disadvantage by community development expert, John Pearce.

 

Published by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation copies can be obtained from: orders@centralbooks.com


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